Flat Iron Manchester

You'll smell the sizzling beef before you even spot the industrial-chic dining room on Deansgate. The concept is brilliantly simple: they've mastered one cut of steak – the flat iron – and they do it better than anyone else in the city. For around twenty quid, you get a perfectly pink slab of beef that's tender enough to cut with a fork, plus a mountain of their addictive dripping chips that they'll keep refilling until you wave the white flag. The no-reservations policy means you might queue, but it moves fast and the staff actually seem to enjoy their jobs. Skip the fancy steakhouses charging double for half the flavour – this is where Manchester's meat lovers come when they want the real deal without the pretension.